Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1910 — LEAVES $400,000 FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT [ARTICLE]

LEAVES $400,000 FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT

Mills' Will Is Filed for Probate -Left Fifty Millons. New York, Jan. 18. The will of Darius Ogden Mills, which has been filed for probate, was a brief document containing less than 500 words. It leave* $400,000 to public institutions and gives the balance of the estate to his two children, Ogden Mills and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. The public bequests are as follows: Metropolitan Museum of Art, SIOO,000; American Museum of Natural History, $100,000; Home for Incurables in the city of New York, $100,000; Botanical Gardens in the Bronx. $50,000; American Geographical society, $25,000 and the American Red Cross, $25,000. The petition accompanying the will put no es-.imate on the value of the estate, but it was said to be worth ir. the neighborhood of $50,000,000.